If there is no spoon, what am I supposed to do with this soup?

Apr. 6th, 2011

Apr. 6th, 2011

I'm trying to decide whether to try and update here again, or just add occasional text posts to Tumblr (which I had originally intended to be a place to dump pictures).

Some stuff is happening! It looks like the Professor and I are going to be moving away from Seattle this summer. Probably we will be going back to Pittsburgh, at least for a while, although I have no idea whether we're likely to stay there for any length of time. Partly it will depend on whether or not we're able to find a suitable building in which to set up shop space.

I've been making some more progress with my printing press, figuring out some things I want to do and also some things I don't want to get stuck doing. The question of how to turn art-crap into money is always a vexing one. I'm good at figuring out logistics and producing inventory, and I'm very, very bad at being a salesman or doing publicity. It seems like I can either be productive and make things, or I can sink energy into photographing, describing, pricing, posting, listing, etc., but I can't remotely do both. And the sales-and-marketing stuff is unpleasant enough that I stop making things for weeks at a time afterward, and sink into lethargy and self-loathing.

One of my (forlorn?) hopes is that if I spend some time back in Pittsburgh, I'll be able to tap into a better network of acquaintances, and that some friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend will turn out to be a sensible, cheerfully outgoing person who is interested in the part of things that involves talking to the public. Surely such a person must exist, somewhere.

In the meantime, I'm all worried about how to pack up everything I own and get it across the continent, again.